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  • When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

    "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate". Book by Alexander McCall Smith, 2005.
  • Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

    Humility   Men   Fishing  
    Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr
  • The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

  • Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

    Dad   Military   Men  
  • The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

    Grace   Needs   Conscious  
    George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”
  • What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

    Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”
  • I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

    Crazy   Father   Book  
  • We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

    Ideas   Different   Kind  
    Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.172, Macmillan
  • Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

    "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.
  • Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

    Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113
  • Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

    Benefits   Speech   Bread  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin
  • Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

  • An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

    Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional
  • [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  • I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.

    Eye   Thinking   People  
    "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

    Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”
  • Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  • It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

    Fear   Mean   Love Is  
  • I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press
  • The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

    Trying   Frailty   Harder  
  • Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

    Holiday   World   Frailty  
    Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.77, Penguin
  • I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press
  • It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

  • It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

    People   Grace   Saving  
    Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com
  • My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

  • There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

    David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA
  • Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  • A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

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